Research
Main fields
Development Economics, Network Economics, Evaluation of Public Policies
Publications
"The speed of justice" (with Florence Kondylis). 2023. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 105 (3): 596–613.
Summary: VoxDev column (2018).
"Social status and egalitarianism in non-lineage-based, agrarian communities in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of funeral attendance " (with Abigail Barr). Forthcoming. Economic Development and Cultural Change.
Working papers
"Fraud detection under limited state capacity: Experimental evidence from Senegal" (with Léo Czajka and Bassirou Sarr). Working paper.
"It’s a Sure Win! Experimental evidence on overconfidence in betting behavior" (with Martin Chegere, Paolo Falco, Marco Nieddu, Lorenzo Pandolfi). CSEF Working Paper 655. (Under review)
"Know-how and know-who: Effects of a randomized training on network changes between small urban entrepreneurs". CSEF Working Paper 622.
Policy papers
"Data Management at the Senegalese Tax Authority: Insights from a Long-term Research Collaboration" (with Léo Czajka, Florence Kondylis, and Bassirou Sarr). 2022. African Tax Administration Paper 27, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies.
Ongoing projects
"Firms' supply chain networks and tax compliance" (with Florence Kondylis, Bassirou Sarr and Léo Czajka). (multi-year project, 2nd RCT ongoing)
"Fostering official trade" (with Paolo Falco and Eleanor Wiseman). (data collection ongoing)
"Social learning or spillovers - Indirect effects of technical and business skills training for small entrepreneurs" (with Francisco Campos, Obert Pimhidzai, Markus Goldstein and Bilal Zia).
"Emerging egalitarian norms" (with Abigail Barr).
Ongoing grants
PRIN PNRR 2022: Firm Networks and Sustainable Development, Principal Investigator, [Italian Government grant program for Research Projects of National Interest], Nov 2023-Nov 2025.